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Nutrition

It’s Not My Fault!

Jothi

I’m going to rant on this post and be very sarcastic. I came across this article today, published by Slate: “Is Panera Bread Trying to Kill Us?” (Yes, they are, but not any more than any other fast food place)

In the article, it states about a drink that Panera serves, “you can send your body into orbit with a Charged Lemonade, an equally feared and loved beverage that contains no fewer than 260 milligrams of caffeine and 82 grams of sugar.”

This story became a thing, because of a woman who decided to do her work at Panera because it was a quiet place to work, and she could get unlimited drinks for 12 bucks a month. She was drinking these things, feeling so alive and full of energy, and didn’t figure out why until her husband paid attention to the nutritional content and was alarmed by what he found. The woman was aware of the posted nutritional content provided by Panera, but didn’t pay close attention. She posted on Tik Tock, “somebody at Panera gon end up getting sued.”

After learning of the caffeine and sugar content, the lady decided that she would still drink it, but water it down to 70/30.

All I can say is WTF?!?!

Starting with, why the hell did Panera make this thing to begin with? Oh gee, that’s easy, to make money off of it. Not much more addicting that sugar and caffeine. They clearly don’t care about your health.

Second, “somebody at Panera gon end up getting sued.” Umm…..is Panera strapping people to chairs, force-feeding them with a tube of this drink?

I hate, how people will not take responsibility for what they put in their bodies!!! It ticks me off! It’s not my fault what I eat! I couldn’t possibly have any control over what goes in my mouth. It just floats in there while I sleep!

Thirdly, this woman is still going to drink it, just watered down a bit??? Let me do the sugar math for you so it’s easier to understand for most people. There are 4 grams of sugar per teaspoon. There are 82 grams of sugar, per Panera drink. That is 20.5 teaspoons per drink!!! TWENTY SPOONS OF SUGAR! Well, that sounds pretty bad, I better do only 70%. 82×70%=57.4/4=14.35. 14 teaspoons of sugar, well that’s much better.

Oh crap, wait! According to our amazing government, that keeps Americans healthy and trim, they recommend Americans consume only 12 teaspoons a day. Shoot, I guess she should only do 60%. Damn, I forgot Panera has free refills. Hmmm…. People’s willpower vs. caffeine and sugar. Wonder who will win that one?

(Just FYI, “The American Heart Association recommends limiting added sugars to no more than 6 percent of calories each day. For most American women, that’s no more than 100 calories per day, or about 6 teaspoons of sugar.”)

I can see into the future and glimpsed her at the doctor’s office with two outcomes. “You just had a massive stroke at the age of 30. We don’t expect you to live much longer.” OR “You have cancer. We don’t know why you have cancer, just bad luck, it’s pretty random who gets cancer. We don’t expect you to live much longer.” (Hmm, maybe she should have gone 30%)

I’m just shaking my head. Good luck, lady. I’m glad you are having your moment of fame. Best wishes.

Eat your vegetables!

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My Power Breakfast Recipe

Jothi

I touched on my breakfast recipe in my post My Diet – Part Two. Here is the whole thing. I have additional information at the bottom. Please read the notes.

Ingredients – one serving

  • 1/2 Cup of Rolled Oats
  • 1 Tablespoon of Quinoa
  • 1 Tablespoon of Amaranth
  • 1 1/2 Half Cups of Frozen mixed berries
  • 1 Tablespoon of Goji berries
  • 1 Pinch of Clove Powder
  • 1 Pinch of Cardamom Powder
  • 1 Tsp of Cinnamon Powder
  • 1 Tsp of Ginger Powder
  • 1 1/2 Tablespoon of Coconut Oil
  • 10 Soaked Overnight Almonds
  • 1 Tablespoon of Chia Seeds
  • 5 Tablespoons of Flax Seeds
  • 3 1/3 Cups of Water

Boil 1 1/3 cups of water in a small pot. Once boiled, add the Quinoa and Amaranth. Turn the heat to low. When the Amaranth gets shiny or drops to the bottom of the pot (about 5 minutes), add the rolled oats. Remove the almond skins, add to pot and stir. Cooked when water is gone.

In a separate pot, add the goji berries, mixed berries, spices and remaining 2 cups of water. Stir the mixture every couple of minutes to have the spices well mixed and cook (enhances flavor). Bring to a boil. Turn off when goji berries look fluffy and blueberries start to lose color.

Add the chia and flax seeds to a coffee grinder and grind for about 15 seconds until you have a smooth powder. Dump the powder into a large eating bowl. Add the coconut oil.

Add the berry mixture into the bowl with the flax mixture. Mix together and let it sit for 2 minutes to let the chia and flax absorb some of the berry mixture water.

Lastly, add the cooked oatmeal mixture. Breakfast is served!

A couple of notes.

I use frozen berries because they are less expensive than fresh ones. Either is good. Mixed berries sometimes have a lot of strawberries in them, which I try and keep to a minimum (trying to keep my body balanced, low on acid foods, it’s an Ayurvedic/Chinese medicine thing).

Sometimes, I add or just use mini wild blueberries (from Canada, usually). They are slightly different in nutrition. I’ve heard they also remove things like radiation. I especially like to have them after getting scanned.

As you saw, I add coconut oil to my breakfast. It is a healthy fat, antibacterial, antimicrobial. Everyone needs healthy fats to their diet. This is one place where I get part of mine, which is the reason it’s in there. If you don’t need it or want it, don’t add it. Don’t substitute poor quality other oils.

Flax! I have a lot of it here in my breakfast, as you can see. It’s really amazing stuff. It is so good for you on so many different levels. That being said, there are cases where this level of flax is too much. For instance, people who have breast cancer. One tablespoon max of freshly ground flax can stabilize and bind excess estrogen, beyond that, it can potentially cause undesirable consequences. Please get educated about your condition or ask your doctor. If in doubt, just use a tablespoon or two.

I don’t use sweetener of any kind. I do believe that added sugar fuels cancer growth, among other things. My taste buds have adapted to a very low sugar diet (which is quite amazing, but that’s a whole other story). If you need some sweetener, try add some raisins.

If you are having trouble with your appetite, try and add more water. I find that watery food is easier to intake than thicker food.

I hope you give it a try and like it. If you want, leave a comment about any tweaks in the recipe you enjoy 😊.

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Gnomes!!!

Jothi

Have you ever seen the children’s movie: Chicken run? Made by Nick Park, the same guy who did Wallace and Gromit. I think the guy is pretty clever and witty, so I liked his shows a lot.

Anyhow the old guy, in Chicken run is being fooled by the chickens and he says “Gnomes”, thinking gnomes are causing the trouble. I still think of that when I hear “Gnomes!”.

Some gnome houses sprouted up overnight in the garden.

It’s amazing how fast mushrooms grow. 

I feel if there ever was a universal cure for cancer, it would come from mushrooms! 

I do eat mushrooms, almost daily. I wouldn’t eat these ones though, being mostly mushroom ignorant. I also take reishi daily for the potential anti myeloma effect.

If you ever wanted to watch an awesome show (I think so anyhow), watch Fantastic Fungi (Netflix has it). They have some amazing time lapse clips and interesting mushroom information.

I haven’t felt like posting for a little while. Mostly been uninspired. I guess I did start one post, that I’m actually really excited about: Death. (Excited about the post, not death 😜).

I’ve been really enjoying writing it and I really hope it is helpful and makes you go “hmm”. It’s been kicking around in my head for months and I’ve been itching to write it. It’s an really important one for me, so I don’t want to flub it.

It was infusion day for me today. They had me take 40mgs of Dex (steroid) on top of the chemo. Dex at this strength, makes my lower back ache like crazy. It’s going to be awesome, can’t sleep and a achy back 👍🏻😝. Really, “everything is awesome”, (woah, Lego movie, I guess I have shows pouring out of my head).

Cheers and Eat your Vegetables!

Nutrition

My Diet – Part Two

Jothi

The word SUPERFOOD. It is used way too much, thrown around by marketers. According to them, everything is a super food and we should all be super, but for some reason we are all fat, sick and dying.

I saw on a potato box recently, “Super food Potatoes!”. POTATOES are not a super food!!! They are super at filling up your stomach if you’re starving, and they taste good, but there isn’t a lot of nutritional value.

As a general rule I have about my food, is that it has to be Organic. There are too many chemicals out there in the food industry for me to trust. Countless chemicals are banned in Europe and other countries, that the US allows. Organic is always better than non organic, but I don’t know what’s available where you live. As long as you are keeping it real with yourself, do the best you can and don’t stress about it (as you know, stress is horrible for you).

I generally eat everything cooked and not raw. I know there is some debate out there over that, when it comes to anti cancer diets. This is the logic that I subscribe to. Cooked food is broken down and more easily digestible. You do lose a bit of nutritional value in the cooking of the food, but if you are absorbing more of it, I feel you are better off. Plus, I can’t think of one person who is on chemo, whose gut bacteria and digestive system isn’t being nuked. Easier to digest equals big win for the digestive system and you.

Generally, the only thing that I eat raw, is vegetable juice, which has broken down already by the juicer and there is big loss in benefit in heating the juice.

Breakfast

I make a mix of oatmeal, amaranth and quinoa as my base. Oats help renew bones and connective tissues. They help with digestion and help remove unwanted things on their way out. Amaranth is an ancient Latin America and African seed. High in protein and vitamins. It has the highest protein content out of grains (although technically not a grain). Quinoa, generally strengthens the whole body. A good source of Iron, B vitamins and vitamin E.

Quick side note on iron. Iron can stimulate tumor growth. Iron based supplements should only be taken with a doctor’s guidance, to know if you are deficient (I’m personally not in favor of iron supplements). I think it’s been pretty well proven at this point that red meat based iron can easily feed cancer cells, because it’s very absorbable. Plant based iron is not well absorbed, so therefor a good source of it for people who have cancer.

We need iron for our red blood cells, hemoglobin and oxygen transfers. I have had my iron tested and I’ve had no negative consequences from my plant based iron intake. My hemoglobin has always looked good (knock on wood), despite it normally being a myeloma challenge.

Sorry, back to breakfast. One cup of cooked amaranth contains nine grams of protein with quinoa not far behind. Protein among other things, is essential building block for your immune system. I’ve had numerous chemo nurses and alternative doctors (both usually from Asia), grind me about getting enough protein. Both saying, “the ones who usually make it from cancer (and more recently from covid), are the ones getting sufficient amounts of protein”.

An adult male, according to our wondrous USDA, needs about 50 grams of protein a day. Breakfast is a good place to start.

I have my base of oatmeal, quinoa and amaranth. I soak about ten almonds overnight. I take off the skins in the morning and add that to the pot. Removing the skins makes them easier to digest (I bet you’re starting to notice a theme). Almonds are nutritional and body building. The skins taken off feel like rough paper, no wonder they don’t digest well.

Nuts on a whole are nutritional, but are hard to digest, so I’m cautious with them. Sometimes, I’ll add in some walnuts (anti cancer), but they are very acidic, and are one of those foods that can throw a person’s body out of balance (not that I’m in balance, aiming to be), from the perspective of Ayurveda (doshas) or Chinese medicine (yin/yang).

In a separate pot, I’ll make a stew of Goji berries (iron, blood building, antioxidant), blueberries, blackberry and raspberries (antioxidants). Sometimes, I add in some seasonal fruit for variety. I’ll add some spices, notably, ginger, a digestive aid, among just being awesome. Through all my treatments, I’ve only be nauseous a couple of times and that was when my intestines were getting blasted by radiation (I don’t know who wouldn’t be nauseous from that!). I owe it all to GINGER. It’s amazing stuff, anti nausea, appetite builder, digestion aid, fever reducer and phlegm remover among other things. I drank pots of freshly made ginger tea when I had Covid and I feel it’s a large reason why I skated through the Covid infection so easily.

Next, I will freshly grind a bit of chia seeds and a good amount of flax seeds. I could classify flax as one of the mother of all super foods. These little buggers are incredible. Loaded with vitamins and minerals. They are one of the richest sources of omega 3 fatty acids, which improve immunity and clean the arteries and are a must for this diet. I freshly grind them each day, because of the oil in the seeds can become rancid after a few days and it’s just so easy to do. Also, without grinding, they would just come out the other side whole and I wouldn’t receive any benefit.

Lastly, I scoop out one tablespoon of coconut oil as a healthy fat. A few years ago, my primary doctor wanted to check my cholesterol (probably to see if I could be put on cholesterol medication). I thought it was stupid, no way I have a cholesterol problem, with the way I eat. The test came back, and it turns out I did have a problem. It wasn’t with bad cholesterol, I didn’t have enough good cholesterol! (Although, I didn’t hear that from my doctor). Daily healthy fats are essential.

I mix it all together and breakfast is served! High nutrition and body building, two things I need. Please join me.

To be continued in Part Three.

Nutrition

My Diet – Part One

Jothi

Cancer is vastly complicated and diet is I feel is a hotly debated topic in the cancer world. To me, it seems that everybody, from every angle adds to it, and muddles it. Unfortunately there is so much money involved by large scale farmers, food manufacturers, stores, marketers, and stock holders/investors, it’s not a pretty picture for your health. Most food companies (not all) are in the business to make money, PERIOD. Make it cheaper, make it taste better, make is last longer on the shelf. Your health is not a big concern.

If you are reading this, then I feel like your health is a big concern for you. Please please please take a interest in what you eat.

I love this quote by B. J. Palmer because it’s so true.

Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies… yet the auto has replaceable parts.

B. J. Palmer

To borrow another one, this time from Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth”. He was talking about the environment, but it holds true for the body environment. What we are eating is killing us, it’s not the only thing (looking at you anything plastic related), but it’s a big contributor.

I recently saw an article about people tightening their budgets because of the economy and inflation. A woman in it was talking about shopping for food at the dollar store and buying more canned food. I’m not judging, you have to do what you have to do. She said she was going to cut corners and buy the cheap stuff, despite knowing it was not the best for her. But, when it came to her dog, “nothing but the best, no corner cutting, he deserves it.” Humans are weird (Judging here).

I fully get it, it is so much easier to take something off the shelf, already prepared and eat it, than to make it, but it can be so much worse for you. What is a cancer cell? It’s a cell that can’t die. Or you could call it a preserved cell?? Preservatives? Food for thought.

Full disclosure as far as myeloma goes. I’ve poured through the books and internet. I’ve never come across anything or anybody that has cured their myeloma from a specific diet (or anything else). There has been some information about certain things like, curcumin, that have put people into remission. Certainly, I can find long term remissioners (20+ years), that point to diet.

What I feel like this diet does for me and my myeloma is, it seems to keep the myeloma moving very slowly. It’s gotten me healthier and helps keep my whole system healthier. It has kept my CBC numbers in normal range and my liver and kidneys functioning well. I feel it also has taken the odds of me getting a secondary cancer from treatment and made that smaller.

I do feel like this diet has the potential to get rid of many other cancers. It’s not anything new, nothing I invented. It’s just a whole food, plant based diet.

One additional benefit is, you will automatically lose weight and all you have to do is eat real food, no dieting. Speaking from my experience, I lost 20+ pounds of extra weight, my wife lost 15+ pounds and I know other heavier people who were on it that lost 30+ pounds. My wife and I weight evened out smack dab in the middle of the bmi chart (for whatever bmi is worth?). It seems like our bodies know what we are supposed to weigh and will hit that weight if we feed ourselves the right things.

A different reaction happened with my children. They put on healthy weight and tissue. Their skin and hair started to glow. They moved to the top of the growth chart at the Doctors. Cavities stopped happening.

My wife and children do eat on occasion “healthy” packaged foods. Diet is still a challenge in our household, due to my teenagers. Kids will be kids, but they eat what my wife and I want them to eat 90% of the time and they on their own avoid the really junky stuff.

Myeloma specialists are also now coming out and talking about the importance of diet for long term survival. Dr. Urvi Shah from Memorial Sloan Kettering is one myeloma specialist who studies diet and myeloma.

We know and there has been clinical studies done, that show that if you are obese, you will do worse with myeloma and treatment with myeloma, including stem cell transplant. If you’re obese, you will do worse across all cancers. This is very real and a very hard truth and there is no sugar coating it (bad pun for this topic).

You can go to pubmed.gov and search diet and cancer and it will pull up 50,000+ studies done by doctors on the importance of diet. Here is an article/study published by the International Journal of Cancer, showing decreased rates of cancer by eating a plant based diet versus a red meat/ processed meat diet.

I read a staggering stat the other day, in regards to prostate cancer. In the US, 140 men per 100,000 will develop prostate cancer. In Europe and South America, 20-50 per 100,000, will. In China, 3 per 100,000. Makes you sure go Hmmm….diet may be an important clue here.

I feel like diet is so important, which is why my website is named carrots over cancer.

Diet has to be a lifestyle choice. You are in control of what you put into your body and the consequences of that are yours. What do you want to become part of you?

My diet summed up is:

I seek out Organic Plant based foods, more vegetable variety, the better, high protein, nutrient dense carbs, fruits, healthy fats and healthy nuts and seeds.

I avoid meat, dairy, sugar, processed foods, junk food, junk carbs and inflammatory foods.

I’ll get into specifics in Part Two.

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My Strategy

Jothi

One of things that is a challenge for me with myeloma is that it is generally an older person cancer and most of the data out there is based on someone much older than I am. The median age for myeloma is 66-70. Only recently has it been showing up in younger people.

I’ll confess that I’m a bit of a data/numbers/stats person. How do I know if a certain set of data points are the way they are because it’s just myeloma or it’s because it’s off of someone who’s 70? The answer is, I don’t.

Most of the oncologists I’ve talked to like to say, “You’re young, you can take it”. Umm gee thanks, I get extra drug abuse because I’m young and can take it???? It’s a fine line between dying of myeloma and dying from drugs meant to kill myeloma. I like to keep that in mind.

The 5 year survival rate for myeloma is about 40%. Obviously, like most people, I want to be on the side of the 40% that is still alive. I want to be a myeloma person who is still alive in 10 years, 15 years, 25 years. 

What’s my strategy to achieve that? A strategy that I believe can help a person who is any age.

By doing what is good for my body, down to the cellular level and bad for cancer. It’s funny how things that are really good for us are also good at getting rid of cancer cells (and other chronic illnesses, I might add).

The biggest foundational piece to health is diet. Without a healthy diet, as the first building block, it’s hard to have success with anything else. Everything builds off of food and drink. It’s easy for me to point to having a poor diet as part of the reason I’m in this mess to begin with.

Feed your body nutritional food that is GOOD for you and don’t feed yourself food that is good for cancer growth. It’s just common sense if you think about it.

NF-KB is the primary pathway for growth in Myeloma, regulating inflammation and immune responses. Doesn’t it just make good practical sense to eat an anti inflammatory diet as to not give myeloma what it needs to grow. We know sugar, dairy, highly processed foods, meat and alcohol are inflammatory for the body and feed cancer cells.

1. I choose an anti inflammatory diet that is plant based whole food which is anti cancer. Food that is full of life/prana/qi and not something that expires 6 months from now.

Some people call a whole food diet, full of vegetables and fruits, legumes, healthy grains and healthy fats extreme. If you stop and think about it, I eat the same way as my great grandparents did and every generation before them. Does that sound extreme? If you had a time machine and went back in time to the 1800’s and asked someone if they have an extreme diet, they would look at you like you were crazy. In fact, I eat better then my great grandparents, because I have access to so much more variety. Only ignorance holds people back.

2. Next, I make sure that I drink purified water. You only have to glance at the news to read about stories of toxic water in whole towns (Flint MI, South Shore KY etc.) that is undrinkable. The local governments come out and say “my bad”, leaving you to deal with the fallout. I use a RO water filter currently. We have pretty good water here in California, but when we change the filters, they are really disgusting. Filter your water!

3. There are basically two thoughts of dealing with cancer, killing it with chemotherapy, surgery or radiation or to block it metabolically (starve it). Metabolically makes the most sense to me, since cancer cells are just your cells gone wrong and I can’t kill my blood without killing myself effectively. Truthfully, I’ve been hammering away at this metabolically and I haven’t been able to get the results I want. The best I got the oncologist to say is “Your myeloma isn’t behaving as expected. You are a high risk patient who is behaving like a standard risk patient”.

I’m currently mixing both worlds of chemo and metabolic blocking. I do take supplements such as Curcumin, Reishi, D3/K2 among other things that inhibit myeloma growth (they inhibit other cancers as well).

4. “Sitting is the new smoking”, they say. Move your body! I stay active everyday, walking, hiking, gardening, bike riding and Qigong. Some say cancer is cause by stagnation of the body, in areas that lack oxygen. Exercise has lots of benefits such as increased oxygen, blood flow (looking at you revlimid non-blood clots), increased heart rate, plus it can get you out of your own head!

5. Speaking of heads, I’m pretty sure I suffered some sort of ptsd with the cancer diagnosis. I took me a couple of years working through stuff to overcome it. It was a big growth experience for me. Getting out raw emotions, breathing techniques and meditation is what worked for me. I still keep up with pranayama and meditation daily for upkeep.

I have had plenty of seemingly one sided conversations with God. One of the things that I’ve gotten back is, an overwhelming sense that I’m meant to go through this (for reasons that are still a mystery to me), so that is very reassuring for me.

6. Detoxing. I’ve spent a significant amount of time working on detoxing my body (and mind). I done detoxing methods from naturopath methods and I’ve gone to India twice for a major full body detox called Panchakarma, which is a month long process each time. I’ve definitely had some raunchy stuff come out of me. Of course we live in a toxic world and I’m continually having toxins come in no matter how much I avoid it. I use diet and infrared sauna to keep on moving things out that aren’t supposed to be there.

To sum up my strategy, I do what is good for me and bad for cancer. Using chemo when I need it (trying to stay away from it as much as possible). Keep moving and living. Hit the myeloma with certain supplements. Keep working on my head and remembering why I want to keep living.

Eat Your Vegetables!

Nutrition

Part of Me?

Jothi

Sometimes I like to change the way I think about food and ask myself if I want that to become part of me? That’s what you really are doing when you eat.

Here is today’s vegetables for juice. I can easily say that I want all of this to be part of me. I’ve been drinking fresh vegetable juice almost daily for 3+ years now.

Today was a special batch because it had some homegrown celery in it from my garden. Grown in composted food scraps and horse manure. Can you see the difference in green between the garden and store bought?

Ground all up, concentrated liquid nutrition. Sometimes you even get cool patterns in the juice.

Among the effects for me are blood building, especially the red blood cells, hemoglobin, platelets. Detoxing, anti constipating (from drugs).

Hmmm….. I used to eat things like this. I don’t think I want it to become part of me anymore. I’m sure it would be an instant stomach for me. The body is always talking and letting you know how you’re doing.

Nutrition

Nutrition Matters

Jothi

Your body is intelligently designed, made to grow, repair and adapt.

Early on in my cancer journey, I would walk laps, limping in my backyard due to cancer damage in my right sacrum affecting my right leg. Although, I didn’t have a very large backyard, around and around I would go. I even wore a circle in the ground from my path. Intuitively, I knew I just needed to move.

I’ve always liked plants and growing things. Sometimes I like to think of myself as a tall hobbit. I had three raised garden beds that I walked by every day. Prior to my diagnosis, I planted a row of bok choi in one of the beds. I had dug a small trench and mixed in some fresh manure with my hands. For me, there is nothing like having my hands in the earth. The earthy smell, the energy going back and forth between the ground and my myself. I planted the seeds, gave them a drink, and they were good to go.

A few weeks later, I had just received an infusion of zometa, which is a biphosonate for strengthening bones, the day prior. Come to find out, biphophontes are something that don’t agree with me. My body, upon awaking that day, had super clamped up, and I had a hard time bending my legs and my right leg wouldn’t bend at all.

In my stubbornness, I still went out in the backyard to do my laps. Hobble hobble, slowly one leg that felt like I had a board strapped to it, went in front of the other. Around I went.  

I was going so slow, that when I got to the bed that had the bok choi, that had since sprouted, a realization hit me. When I sprinkled the seeds a couple of weeks earlier, some must have landed 8 inches or so outside my manure filled trench and started to grow. The ground 8 inches away was depleted from the previous year’s crops. The plants in my trench were  4-6 times the size of the ones that were 8 inches away, where I didn’t mean for them to land. The only difference was the soil nutrition!

Right then, at that very moment, I knew there was something to this. Nutrition Matters! Plants that receive optimal nutrition and growing conditions do amazingly well.

We are grossly over fed, but we are STARVING! Stop eating processed empty filler food and drinks full of sugar, preservatives, chemicals and pesticides that are really slowly killing us. The rates of cancer and other chronic diseases are rapidly increasing, and it’s not happening by accident.

Food is the major foundational piece to your body’s equation. Feed yourself real whole food, full of life, full of vitamins and nutrients. Give your body the tools it needs.

Your body is talking and even screaming at you by way of symptoms. Being overweight, chronic pain, inflammation, type 2 diabetes, thyroid disease, insomnia, rashes, diarrhea and constipation are all signs that your ship is not sailing correctly. Drugs mask the symptoms, but with most that’s all they do, they don’t fix the root cause.

I know, humans like to pretend that we are not part of Mother earth’s system. We work the exact same way as everything else on this planet. We are all connected. Give a human optimal nutrition and growing conditions, and we do amazingly well, and our bodies have the ability to repair and correct.

Certainly, we can’t always repair and correct everything, but give yourself your best chance. Your body knows what to do, even if you don’t. Amazing things and miracles happen every day!

I promise you, Nutrition matters!